365.172 Untitled

D7000. Sigma 30mm f/1.4. ISO800, 1/125th, f/4. Some cropping and gentle processing in Aperture. I’m running a bit behind tonight for reasons I won’t go into, so apologies for not having a story or something to say about this. Note: a friendly neighbor assisted a bit, by strategically strewing flowers and twigs around. Thanks for …

365.171 Askew

Have you ever had an idea for a shot, spent 20 minutes setting it up, 20 minutes trying various arrangements, angles, subject/camera positioning, but finding nothing that worked, then glanced over, saw some groovy light happening, and snapped the shot in one go? Well that’s what I just did… and here I thought (read: hoped) …

365.169 Coltrane, Lush Life, Track One

I’ve long wanted to title things with musical phrases, but I’ve yet to come up with a way to do it. For example, you walk into a gallery, and there next to a painting is a card with some musical notation where the title would usually go, followed by the artist name and materials and …

365.168 people dressed in plastic bags, directing traffic

(Unrelated) Downloaded the new Aperture 3.3… It took ~30minutes to update my library, and a minute to get the RAW converter panel back. Overall, I like the look, though some of the stuff has been dumbed down a bit (the extra sliders in Shadows/Highlights, for example). The new preview functions are a bit strange too: …

365.167 some kinda fashion

Is there something wrong with listening to Shattered so many times that I can now understand most all of the lyrics? Or does it matter? D7000. Vivitar 70-210mm f/3.5 Series 1 (Kiron), in Macro mode at about 1:5ish, and handheld (that thing is heavy). ISO400, 1/20th (AP Mode… lazy), f/3.5. Minimal levels adjustment, and a boost to the …